Advanced Fluid Mechanics in Hydraulic Engineering: Turbulence, Multiphase Flows, and Sediment Dynamics
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental fluid mechanics; sediment transport; local scour; turbulent jets; fluid-structure interaction; eco-hydraulics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: environmental fluid mechanics; sediment transport; local scour; turbulent jets; fluid-structure interaction; eco-hydraulics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Understanding the intricate interplay between turbulent flows, mobile boundaries, and submerged structures is fundamental to advancing the field of hydraulic engineering. This Special Issue focuses on the fine-scale hydrodynamics governing erosion, transport, and deposition processes in both fluvial and maritime settings.
We seek contributions that leverage high-fidelity numerical methods (e.g., LES, DNS, multiphase RANS) and cutting-edge experimental techniques (e.g., PIV, acoustic Doppler profiling) to investigate complex flow fields and their interaction with the environment.
Key topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Turbulence–sediment interaction: the mechanics of particle entrainment, suspension, and bedload transport in shear flows;
- Local scour mechanisms: vortex systems and scouring processes around complex geometries, bridge piers, and offshore hydraulic structures.
- Jet hydrodynamics: turbulent properties of submerged jets, including ship propeller wash and their erosive potential on granular beds;
- Canopy flows: hydrodynamic adjustments, drag forces, and turbulent structures within and above submerged vegetation;
- Fluid–structure interaction: coupled dynamics of flow and rigid or flexible structures in hydraulic environments.
This Special Issue aspires to gather breakthrough studies that refine our theoretical understanding and modeling capabilities of environmental flows, fostering new criteria for advanced hydraulic design.
Prof. Dr. Roberto Gaudio
Dr. Nadia Penna
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental fluid mechanics
- sediment transport
- local scour
- computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
- turbulent jets
- flu-id-structure interaction
- eco-hydraulics
- multiphase flows
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